linux/net/netlink
Nicolas Dichtel 59324cf35a netlink: allow to listen "all" netns
More accurately, listen all netns that have a nsid assigned into the netns
where the netlink socket is opened.
For this purpose, a netlink socket option is added:
NETLINK_LISTEN_ALL_NSID. When this option is set on a netlink socket, this
socket will receive netlink notifications from all netns that have a nsid
assigned into the netns where the socket has been opened. The nsid is sent
to userland via an anscillary data.

With this patch, a daemon needs only one socket to listen many netns. This
is useful when the number of netns is high.

Because 0 is a valid value for a nsid, the field nsid_is_set indicates if
the field nsid is valid or not. skb->cb is initialized to 0 on skb
allocation, thus we are sure that we will never send a nsid 0 by error to
the userland.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-09 22:15:31 -04:00
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Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) 2013-03-21 12:38:03 -04:00
af_netlink.c netlink: allow to listen "all" netns 2015-05-09 22:15:31 -04:00
af_netlink.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-01-27 16:59:56 -08:00
diag.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
genetlink.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2015-01-27 16:59:56 -08:00